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kitcar007kev

posted on 9/5/08 at 06:16 AM Reply With Quote
Ars3

Guess who forgot to do their bonnet up properly. Nothing like a morning blast to work with a bonnet sailing past your head to wake you up!!
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Guinness

posted on 9/5/08 at 06:18 AM Reply With Quote
Been there, done that! I got half a lap in!

Glad you are out in your car today!

Mike






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kitcar007kev

posted on 9/5/08 at 06:25 AM Reply With Quote
Morning,

It didnt half wakeup the poor woman walking her dog down the side of the road. Lol.

its the excuse i need to order a few new parts.

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adithorp

posted on 9/5/08 at 06:43 AM Reply With Quote
Thats odd; I had a dream about that last night!

adrian

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kitcar007kev

posted on 9/5/08 at 06:48 AM Reply With Quote
a woman walking a dog? was she nice
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gingerprince

posted on 9/5/08 at 07:41 AM Reply With Quote
No idea what you mean...
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Mr Whippy

posted on 9/5/08 at 08:06 AM Reply With Quote
just be glad it didn't just swing up and whack you on the head





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worX

posted on 9/5/08 at 08:28 AM Reply With Quote
Join the exclusive club.

The people who haven't had it happen are really, really jealous of us

Steve






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Paul TigerB6

posted on 9/5/08 at 08:46 AM Reply With Quote
You'd have to be really really daft to do it a 2nd time anyway.

I only managed it the once myself!!

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David Jenkins

posted on 9/5/08 at 08:56 AM Reply With Quote
I've had a front corner flapping at 70mph - that concentrates the mind...






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locoR1

posted on 9/5/08 at 11:19 AM Reply With Quote
7 years and I've never done it yet! now I've said that wait for the post in the next day or so





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paulmw

posted on 9/5/08 at 12:21 PM Reply With Quote
Errrm me too. Mine flew off in my road and the Vicar who lives a few hundred yards away picked it up for me

Very embarassing. Now wheres that T-cut

Paul

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Johneturbo

posted on 9/5/08 at 12:22 PM Reply With Quote
My first ever qually session for my first race, and i go and forget my bonnet pins!

not a 7 but my trusty old pug 205

http://www.johneturbo.co.uk/oops.wmv

Doh

[Edited on 9/5/08 by Johneturbo]

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irvined

posted on 9/5/08 at 01:58 PM Reply With Quote
Hapenned to me on the way back from Stoneleigh. Going along minding my own business on the a14 to harwich when all of a sudden the bonnet flew up wacked me on the head (Yet another reason for a helmet in the seven) and landed in the middle of the road.

Fortunately for me Gert was a good distance behind me and the road was almost empty so it didnt hit anything else on its way down.

It snapped a couple of those rubbed SVA clippy things. The irony is I forked out for aerocatches at the weekend because i never trusted those rubber ones in the first place.

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posted on 9/5/08 at 03:43 PM Reply With Quote
interesting, i never trusted those SVA rubber catches, my bonnet kept coming loose on the motorways on long journeys, resulting in frantic passenger waving and immediate hard shoulder entry!!!

In the end i purchased these and am yet to have any problems;






I can very much recommend them, cheap off ebay too

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Simon

posted on 9/5/08 at 10:42 PM Reply With Quote
My bonnet and nosecone are all one piece and hinged under radiator. For good measure, there's also a couple of bits of steel wire attached to bonnet and chassis (which have the dual purpose of keeping nose off floor when bonnet open, and hopefully preventing the bonnet coming off if hinges fail

ATB

Simon






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